biosdevname v0.3.4

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Fri Dec 17 13:16:56 UTC 2010


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:57:35PM +0800, Simon Yan wrote:
> This is neat, thanks for the effort.
> Just tried it and works great.
> 
> One suggestion, can you add the logic if the program is not executed
> by root it exits with a non-0 value and print out a warning message?

That's a good idea for now.  Ideally we would expose all the necessary
bits in sysfs so it wouldn't need to be root (right now it reads
/dev/mem), but enough bits are missing from sysfs today that it isn't
feasible.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
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